hackamore

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So Williams plans to stop calling a rope a rawhide riata and not use words like hackamore, tapaderas and cinch ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

A hackamore with a piece of halter rope attached to it hung across the upper bar.

From The Mucker by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Presently the riders returned, and Phil, when he had removed saddle, blanket and hackamore from his pupil, seated himself on the edge of the watering trough beside the Dean.

From When A Man's A Man by Wright, Harold Bell

Collie, using both hands, swung the hackamore across the outlaw's neck and tugged.

From Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Fischer, Anton Otto

Tied to a bush, by a hackamore, was an iron-gray colt, the fastest on the ranch.

From Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by Hart, William S.